eval: type toolCallId at the persistence boundary instead of casting it - #4351
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Tool-policy enforcement gave the runner a reason to carry the provider's `toolCallId` on every extracted tool call -- `extractToolCallsExcludingPolicyBlocks` matches blocked calls by it. The field was attached with an `as ToolCall` cast at all three push sites, and `type ToolCall` was never widened to admit it. That cast is exactly what suppressed TypeScript's excess-property check. The same array is what gets persisted as `updateTestIteration.actualToolCalls`, where a Convex object validator that had never heard of `toolCallId` rejected it outright -- so every eval iteration that called a tool failed to record its result. Only prose-only iterations, which send `[]`, got through. This change is type-only and alters no runtime behavior; the runtime fix is the matching backend widening (MCPJam/mcpjam-backend#1134), which has to deploy first. What it buys is that the boundary cannot silently drift again: `ToolCall` and `finalize-iteration`'s `ToolCallRecord` both name `toolCallId`, the three casts are gone, and adding another undeclared field to a persisted tool call is now a compile error rather than a production ArgumentValidationError that surfaces sixty seconds later as "Worker heartbeat lost". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0143FPiXSfkYoPJBSQJ17v8Q
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In @.changeset/eval-tool-call-id-typed-at-boundary.md:
- Around line 5-9: Update the release workflow for this changeset so publishing
`@mcpjam/inspector` cannot proceed unless the production backend deployment has
completed. Adjust publish-packages or its dependency/guard to require
deploy-backend-prod, or enforce deploy_backend_prod=true for this release,
preserving the existing publication flow once the backend validator is deployed.
In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/evals-runner.ts`:
- Around line 524-539: Add regression tests for the ToolCall persistence and
extraction flow, covering every extraction source with present and absent
toolCallId values, blocked and unblocked calls, null and empty inputs, Convex
validation failures, and error-handling paths; verify actualToolCalls accepts
the typed contract and preserves identifiers correctly.
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| Tool-policy enforcement gave the runner a reason to carry the provider's `toolCallId` on every extracted tool call — `extractToolCallsExcludingPolicyBlocks` matches blocked calls by it. The field was attached with an `as ToolCall` cast at all three push sites, and `type ToolCall` was never widened to admit it. That cast is precisely what suppressed TypeScript's excess-property check, and the same array is what gets persisted as `updateTestIteration.actualToolCalls` — where a Convex object validator that had never heard of `toolCallId` rejected it outright. Every eval iteration that called a tool failed to record its result; only prose-only iterations, which send `[]`, got through. | ||
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| This change is type-only and alters no runtime behavior — the runtime fix is the matching backend widening, which has to deploy first. What it buys is that the boundary can't silently drift again: `ToolCall` and `finalize-iteration`'s `ToolCallRecord` now both name `toolCallId`, the three casts are gone, and adding another undeclared field to a persisted tool call is a compile error rather than a production `ArgumentValidationError` that surfaces sixty seconds later as `Worker heartbeat lost`. |
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- 1: https://github.com/MCPJam/inspector
- 2: https://github.com/MCPJam/inspector/
- 3: Hosts in backend2 #3083
- 4: Skills platform unification + evals integration (inspector) #3069
- 5: changesets #3202
- 6: feat(cli): compat verdicts from the live host catalog (CANI-2 PR 5/5) #3050
- 7: feat(telemetry): track stateless MCP protocol connects #3013
- 8: fix(reconnect): don't toast client-switch reconnects as failed while in progress #3113
- 9: docs: checkpoint shared SSE loop (952) + SystemPromptBuilder (1091) panyam/mcpkit#1134
- 10: feat+fix: one-click client connection + autotest bug-fix batch CoplayDev/unity-mcp#1142
- 11: https://docs.mcpjam.com/contributing/evals-architecture
- 12: Invalid parameter: messages with role 'tool' must be a response to a preceeding message with 'tool_calls'. get-convex/agent#38
- 13: https://github.com/get-convex/agent/blob/6fbf0886/src/validators.ts
- 14: Being able to save "tool-call" in saveMessage get-convex/agent#183
- 15: https://github.com/get-convex/agent/blob/6fbf0886/src/client/createTool.ts
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Citations:
- 1: docs(analytics): flag audit + migration guide + backend twins plan #3108
- 2: chore(release): drop the backend host-catalog seed dispatch #3129
- 3: Skills platform unification + evals integration (inspector) #3069
- 4: feat(computers): verify RS256 terminal tokens against the backend JWKS #3093
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- 7: feat(xaa): opt-in hosted issuer for local debugger runs — no tunnel needed #3104
- 8: feat(swarms): promote swarm sessions to eval test cases (PR 2/2) #3143
Require the backend validator before publishing @mcpjam/inspector.
publish-packages still allows publication when deploy_backend_prod=false; in that case, deploy-backend-prod is skipped. Make the backend deployment mandatory for this changeset, or require deploy_backend_prod=true for this release, so toolCallId cannot reach npm before the Convex validator accepts it.
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In @.changeset/eval-tool-call-id-typed-at-boundary.md around lines 5 - 9, Update
the release workflow for this changeset so publishing `@mcpjam/inspector` cannot
proceed unless the production backend deployment has completed. Adjust
publish-packages or its dependency/guard to require deploy-backend-prod, or
enforce deploy_backend_prod=true for this release, preserving the existing
publication flow once the backend validator is deployed.
| type ToolCall = { | ||
| toolName: string; | ||
| arguments: Record<string, any>; | ||
| /** | ||
| * The provider's id for this call, when the source part carried one. | ||
| * | ||
| * Declared here rather than smuggled in behind a cast: this value is BOTH | ||
| * read locally (`extractToolCallsExcludingPolicyBlocks` matches blocked | ||
| * calls by it) and persisted (`updateTestIteration.actualToolCalls`), and | ||
| * the casts that used to hide it are how it reached a Convex validator that | ||
| * had never been told about it — an unknown field there is a hard | ||
| * ArgumentValidationError, so every tool-calling iteration failed to | ||
| * finalize. Keeping it on the type is what makes the persistence boundary | ||
| * type-checked again. | ||
| */ | ||
| toolCallId?: string; |
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Add regression tests for the typed persistence path.
The server changes add toolCallId to the persisted tool-call contract and update extraction at Lines [991], [1018], [1043], and [1060]-[1064]. This cohort contains no test changes. Add coverage for each extraction source, present and absent identifiers, blocked and unblocked identifiers, null and empty inputs, and Convex validation and error-handling paths.
As per coding guidelines, mcpjam-inspector/**/*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx} changes must include tests covering happy paths, validation errors, error handling, and null and empty values.
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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/evals-runner.ts` around lines 524 - 539, Add
regression tests for the ToolCall persistence and extraction flow, covering
every extraction source with present and absent toolCallId values, blocked and
unblocked calls, null and empty inputs, Convex validation failures, and
error-handling paths; verify actualToolCalls accepts the typed contract and
preserves identifiers correctly.
Source: Coding guidelines
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Type-only. Companion to MCPJam/mcpjam-backend#1134, which carries the actual runtime fix and must deploy first.
Context
Every eval iteration that calls a tool has failed to record its result since 08-23.
updateTestIterationrejects the finalize write:It surfaced as
Worker heartbeat lostbecause the error is three steps from the fault: the throw is masked asServer Errorin prod,finalize-iteration's catch matches none ofnot found/unauthorized/cancelledso it takes the transient branch and leaves the iteration running, and 60s later the backend's stale sweep stamps it. The heartbeat was healthy throughout, andtokensUsed: 0didn't mean the model never ran — the write carrying the token count is the rejected one.What this PR fixes
Not the crash — the reason nothing caught it.
1bea9340c8(#4308, tool-policy enforcement, Lane D/D4) gave the runner a legitimate need for the provider'stoolCallId:extractToolCallsExcludingPolicyBlocksfilters blocked calls by it. But the field was attached with anas ToolCallcast at all three push sites inextractToolCallsFromConversation, whiletype ToolCallstayed{ toolName, arguments }.That cast is precisely what suppressed the excess-property check that would have caught this at compile time. And the same array is what ships to Convex as
actualToolCalls, so a field no type on the path admitted existed reached a validator that rejected it.type ToolCallnow declarestoolCallId?: stringas ToolCallcasts are goneextractToolCallsExcludingPolicyBlocksdrops itsas ToolCall & { toolCallId?: unknown }cast and reads the field directlyfinalize-iteration'sToolCallRecordgains the same field, and thetoolsCalledparam stops re-declaring the shape inline — this type describes exactly what goes over the wire, so it has to name every field the runner sendsAdding another undeclared field to a persisted tool call is now a compile error.
Why not just strip the id before sending
That would fix the crash — the id is consumed and discarded inside the same function — but it's the wrong trade.
widgetRenderObservationsis indexedby_session_and_toolCallId, so persisting it is what lets a recorded tool call be joined to the widget render it drove. The backend PR widens the validator to keep it.Verification
npx tsc --noEmitdiffed before vs after acrossevals-runner.ts,finalize-iteration.ts, andevals-runner.test.ts: no new errors (only line-number shifts on pre-existing ones)evals-runner.test.ts(90),tool-policy-gate.test.ts,runner-parity.test.ts(27),build-iteration-finish-params.test.ts— all passMerge order
Backend #1134 first. This PR changes no runtime behavior — the inspector already sends
toolCallIdin production today, so nothing here alters what goes over the wire.Follow-ups, not in this PR
finalize-iteration.tsclassifiesArgumentValidationErroras transient. A validation failure is permanent — retrying can't fix it — and swallowing it produced a 60s-delayed, actively misleading error. Should be fatal and surfaced with its real cause.mcpjam-backend-prodin Axiom the whole time, keyed bydata.function.request_id; prod redaction hides it at the only place a human reads it.Why the tests didn't catch it
Every test #4308 added is inspector-side, so no Convex validator ever ran against the new shape.
runner-parity.test.ts.snapdoes snapshotactualToolCalls, but its fixture tool call carries notoolCallId— so the snapshot recorded{arguments, toolName}and stayed green. The backend PR adds the test that actually exercises the boundary.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Compile-time typing only; runtime payloads are unchanged and depend on the backend deploy that accepts
toolCallId.Overview
Type-only companion to the backend validator widening — no runtime wire change; the inspector already sends
toolCallIdonactualToolCalls.The runner’s
ToolCalltype now declares optionaltoolCallId(used for tool-policy blocking and persisted asupdateTestIteration.actualToolCalls). The threeas ToolCallcasts inextractToolCallsFromConversationare removed, andextractToolCallsExcludingPolicyBlocksreads the field directly instead of casting.finalize-iteration’sToolCallRecordandFinalizeEvalIterationParams.toolsCalledare aligned so every field the runner sends is named before Convex — undeclared fields become compile errors instead of productionArgumentValidationErroron tool-calling iterations.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 903cb5d. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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toolCallIdon the eval runner’s tool-call records and at the finalize-iteration boundary, replacing casts, so the payload sent to Convex is type-checked. This closes the gap that let an unexpectedtoolCallIdreach the validator and rejectactualToolCalls.Review notes
ToolCallnow includestoolCallId?: string; the three casts are removed andextractToolCallsExcludingPolicyBlocksreads the field directly.finalize-iteration’sToolCallRecordmirrors the same field and is used fortoolsCalled.Rollout
toolCallId.Written for commit 903cb5d. Summary will update on new commits.